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Define ‘Illusion’

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Misperceptions of real external stimuli

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Define ‘Hallucination’

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Perceptions occurring in the absence of external stimuli

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Define ‘Hypnopompic/hypnogogic hallucinations’

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Hallucinations that occur as the patient falls asleep/wakes up

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Define ‘Reflex hallucination’

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Sensory hallucination from an auditory stimulus

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Define ‘extracampine hallucination’

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Hallucination experienced beyond the realms of reality

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What is an ‘auditory, 2nd person hallucination’?

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When the hallucination is speaking directly to the patient using ‘you’

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What is an ‘auditory 3rd person hallucination’?

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When the hallucination speaks about the patient giving a running commentary eg. ‘she is..’

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Define ‘overvalued idea’

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False/exaggerated belief held without reason and with rigidity- but NOT delusion

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Define ‘delusion’

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Belief held outside cultural/social/religious norms with absolute conviction

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What is a ‘persecutory delusion’?

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Patient believes an external agent is going to harm them/loved one

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What is a ‘grandiose delusion’?

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Patient has an inflated self-worth

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What is a ‘self-referential delusion’?

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Patient believes what they see/hear is related to them (even when completely unrelated)

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What is a ‘guilt delusion’?

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Patient believes they have caused harm/death to others

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What is a ‘nihilistic delusion’?

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Patient believes they are dead, bowels rotten etc

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What is a ‘misidentification delusion’?

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Patient believes a close relative/friend has been replaced by an imposter

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What is a ‘hypochondriacal delusion’?

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Patient believes they have a condition/disease even when cleared by medical professionals

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Define ‘delusional perception’

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A delusional belief resulting from a true perception eg. lights went green and so I know MI5 is after me

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Define ‘thought alienation’

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Generic term to cover the types of thought phenomenon

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Define ‘thought insertion’

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Belief that patients thoughts are not their own and being put in their head by an external agent

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Define ‘thought withdrawal’

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Belief that thoughts have been stolen from patient’s head by an external agent

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Define ‘thought broadcast’

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Belief that patients thoughts are being broadcast out loud for everyone to hear

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Define ‘thought echo’

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From of auditory hallucination where patient hears thoughts spoken aloud either at the same time/after thinking them

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Define ‘thought block’

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Sudden interruption in the patient’s train of thought leaving them with a blank and cannot get back to it even with prompting

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Define ‘concrete thinking’

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Lack of abstract thinking. Patients will take expressions literally.

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Define ‘loosening of association’

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Lack of logical association between thoughts - severe schizo/mania

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Define ‘circumstantiality’

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Irrelevant wandering in a conversation- takes a long time to get to the point

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Define ‘preservation’

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Repetition of a word/theme/point until past the point it was relevant eg. replying to every answer with 2 weeks

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Define ‘confabulation’

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Making up stories to fill in blanks in memory- sound coherent but delusional

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Define ‘Somatic passivity’

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Belief that patient is passively receiving bodily sensations from an outside agent

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Define ‘made act’

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Act is carried out by patient but they believe it is considered alien/imposed. Patient may move arm but say ‘the devil is moving my arm for me and I can’t stop it’

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Define ‘made feeling’

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Feeling felt by patient but considered alien/imposed. ‘I am feeling miserable and low, MI5 is causing this as I’m actually fine’

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Define ‘made drive’

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Impulse is carried out by patient but considered alien/imposed. ‘MI5 is feeding messages into my head that’s making me run down the street’

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Define ‘clouding of consciousness’

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Lowered level of consciousness and decreased perception and response to external stimuli . Cx= DRUGS

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Define ‘catatonia’

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State of excited/inhibited motor activity in absence of mood disorder/neuro disease

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Define catatonia- ‘wavy flexibility’

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Patient’s limbs feel like wax/lead and kept in position when moved

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Define catatonia- ‘echolalia’

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Automatic repetition of words heard

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Define catatonia- ‘echopraxia’

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Automatic repetition of actions seen

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Define catatonia- ‘legoclonia’

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Automatic repetition of last syllable of word

39
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Define catatonia- ‘Negativism’

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Motiveless resistance to movement

40
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Define catatonia - ‘palilalia’

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Repetition of word with increasing frequency

41
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Define catatonia- ‘verbigeration’

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Repetition of sentences - in monotonous tone

42
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Define ‘stupor’ or ‘akinetic autism’

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Complete loss of activity with no response to stimuli

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Define ‘psychomotor retardation’

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Slowing of thoughts and movements

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Define ‘flight of ideas’

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Rapid skipping of thoughts with distant connections eg. puns

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Define ‘pressure of speech’

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Excess rate of speech with sentences that may/may not be linked and can wander off the point

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Define ‘anhedonia’

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Loss of interest in activities the patient previously enjoyed

47
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Define ‘incongruity of affect’

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Emotional responses out of sync with topic of conversation

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Define ‘blunting of affect’

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Absence of normal emotional responses

49
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Define ‘belle indifference’

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Feeling of indifference about disability/symptom

50
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Define ‘depersonalisation’

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Feeling of sense of detachment from one’s own body - spectator to life

51
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Define ‘derealisation’

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Feeling of surroundings not being real- dull, grey, lifeless

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Define ‘dissocation’

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Patient feels disconnected from themselves/surroundings

53
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Define ‘conversion’

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SYMPTOM FORMATION- translating psychological conflict into somatic sx - motor/sensory

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Define ‘mannerism’

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Bizarre elaboration of normal activities eg. twirling hair on toilet (not when nervous)

55
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Define ‘stereotyped behaviour’

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Uniform, repetitive, non-goal directed actions - can be random movements

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Define ‘obsession’

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Recurrent persistent thoughts that enter consciousness and cannot be resisted

57
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Define ‘compulsion’

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Repetitive, apparently purposeful behaviour performed without goal, despite patient knowing its senseless and can’t resist

58
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Define ‘Akathitsia’

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Motor restlessness - anxiety (inner restlessness) or can’t sit still/sleep

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